Hyderabad Bus Fire

Hyderabad bus fire: travel companies continue to flout norms

South | Radhika Iyer | Tuesday November 5, 2013

Less than a week after 45 people were burnt alive in their sleep in a Bangalore to Hyderabad bus, little lessons have been learnt from the tragedy with operators openly flouting travel norms.

CID to probe Andhra Pradesh bus blaze

South | Indo-Asian News Service | Saturday November 2, 2013

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Friday announced that a committee of senior IAS officers, and also the Criminal Investigation Department of the state police, would probe Wednesday's bus mishap in Mahabubnagar district.

Hyderabad bus fire: Agonising wait for families waiting to claim bodies

South | Uma Sudhir | Thursday October 31, 2013

"All I am asking for is my son's body," it was as though the poignant scene from Anupam Kher's iconic Saaransh was coming alive at Hyderabad's Forensic Science Lab. In the film, the character played by Mr Kher breaks down before an official who asks for a bribe in exchange for the ashes of his son's body. In Hyderabad, grieving relatives were vexed...

Hyderabad bus fire: Driver, travel company owner arrested

South | Press Trust of India | Thursday October 31, 2013

A day after the tragic mishap in Mahabubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh, in which 45 passengers of a Volvo bus were burnt alive after it caught fire, police today arrested the owner of the bus operator company and its driver.

5 techies among 45 killed in fire on bus headed to Hyderabad

South | Edited by Shamik Ghosh (with inputs from agencies) | Wednesday October 30, 2013

It was a little after 5 am when the bus headed from Hyderabad to Bangalore hit a barrier on the highway. The passengers on board were sleeping when the Volvo went up in flames. 44 people were killed, many of them burnt alive.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister orders probe into bus fire mishap

South | Indo-Asian News Service | Wednesday October 30, 2013

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy today ordered a probe into the bus mishap in Mahabubnagar district which claimed 40 lives.

44 killed in fire on bus travelling from Bangalore to Hyderabad

South | Edited by Shamik Ghosh (with PTI inputs) | Wednesday October 30, 2013

At least 44 people died when a bus headed from Bangalore to Hyderabad went up in flames early this morning.